"Say first, of god above or man below;……" — Alexander Pope
"Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
— David Hume
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
— Thomas Huxley
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity,…
— Andre Gide
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
— Jonathan Swift
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An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
— Carl Sagan
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